resar posted:

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Chelsea will be Jeb in 2020

Raskolnikov38 posted:

fat reek's reward will be, at best, a presidential pardon for bridgegate

Sojenus posted:

looking into events my state democrats are doing to see if i can show up and rabble rouse, and their calendar is dead

just like their party

Baloogan posted:

is booker seriously trying to be obama II?

booker / warren
booker / sanders
booker / someone

Mordiceius posted:

I'm like 10 pages back working through this thread, but this twitter post brings up something I want to discuss.

How the hell are we supposed to motivate our peers when half of them only speak in pop culture references.

https://twitter.com/ryanezinga/status/796235338460999681
https://twitter.com/lukesevereid/status/796382664810823680
https://twitter.com/adh94/status/796241027116003328

When everywhere I look I see poo poo like this, I think maybe we should just burn everything to the ground and live in a post apocalyptic hellscape.

Then the other half of the people respond to any thought of politics as "Politics ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the sun will come up tomorrow. Let's everyone just get along."

Or I actually saw someone post yesterday "Facebook is so much better when you just unfollow anyone and anything that isn't a meme page. Only happiness here."



How do you connect to people like that? How are we supposed to motivate people when this is how they act to anything?

platzapS posted:

A campaign data director/progressive activist/backyard wrestling Tim Faust says:

"I've been very upset about this for the past few days—though I'm often very upset—specifically with the revelation that Dem efforts often 'activated Trump voters.

• We are seeing the most savage consequence of data-determinism in campaigns; the turgid insistence that, because a voter's expected vote can be generally predicted by demographic or historical data, persuasion must exclusively be microtargeted

• The outsourcing of critical thought to a third-party Model (itself built by former party officials, purchased by a campaign by their friends), with nobody adequately incentivized to poke, test, or destroy it.

• increasing belief that, because of the success of OFA's efficient organizing structure, campaigns can be Taylorized—which results in little to no low-level data which might question the Model flowing upstream. Activating a bunch of Trump voters in North Carolina is dismissed as a 'fluke'—and there's nobody with the permission, space, or data to figure out when those 'flukes', in aggregate, indicate a hidden confounding variable.

• Criminally negligent software. The private sector would never tolerate models with the long-ranging inaccuracies as the Civis b2b product—I know, because I've seen that process happen three or four times. Nor would anyone—not even those Facebook spam sites that try to sell you shirts with your last name on them—ever tolerate for a minute NGPVAN's garbageware."

MrCussMustard posted:

Kind of like displaying a coat hanger in support of a woman's right to choose.


It's called divine mandate

Zoran posted:

Manchin at Vice Chair for Policy and Communications

Sanders gets Outreach Chair

logikv9 posted:

Hell yeah an election that I can have an actual voice in

Internet Explorer posted:

So, I'm watching Requiem for the American Dream right now and it's kinda blowing my mind.

loquacius posted:

Nobody is saying we should only study STEM. No one has ever said that. Stop arguing against that point.


I was mostly just curious whether that right-wing blogger's dubious unnamed source was right after all (turns out, no)

Mordiceius posted:

Well, I'm at the Alameda County Democratic Party meeting and they're already rumbling about pushing for a general strike.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Dems can't even beat the liberal propaganda machine.

Thoguh posted:

That was a good interview so I'm going to link it directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xSVzdUNqo

Their confused silence when he challenges them on who they are talking about when they say "nobody would say we're in a recession" couldn't have been better if it was scripted.

bump_fn posted:

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/799668183351357440

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/799668392139444224

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/799668643105644545

anime was right posted:

oxxidation lets run the nj democratic party because apparently no one else is

zen death robot posted:

I'm guessing everyone realizes that Gabbard is bad now huh

Shemp the Stooge posted:

I wonder if Ellison gaining momentum is what caused her to go to trump.

Karl Sharks posted:

you must know different americans than i do, because they are super loving concerned about their taxes and think anything the government proposes is going to raise them

Karl Sharks posted:

yeah but what if you took out california???

Well What Now posted:

because what the left needs now is more obnoxiously woke undergrads yelling at people

Aurubin posted:

The incoming DNC chair needs to have a talk with the social media team.

mannerup posted:

dnc's social media director

https://twitter.com/CateDomino/status/796009175847419904
https://twitter.com/CateDomino/status/796770792541421569

Pon de Bundy posted:

I know why she lost


Tim kaine was seen as a creep , a weirdo , an uncle touchy . He had none of the charm of Biden and was just so boring and awkward

Pon de Bundy posted:

harmonica playing weirdo , no charisma , just a straight up goober

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

Do you remember what Trump did to their shining golden boy, Micro?

Concerned Citizen posted:

yeah nothing happened in 2009/2010, except reforming wall street, healthcare reform, lilly ledbetter, $100 billion in new infrastructure spending, expanding access to food assistance for the poor, repealing don't ask don't tell, and a new nuclear disarmament treaty. but obviously there are 60 people with a D next to their name in the senate for 6 months so why shouldn't it just be full socialism now

Grondoth posted:

Everyone who participates in the melting of that goddamn golden cow will be cleansed of their taint

kenner116 posted:

It's going to be Harris vs. Booker for the 2020 primary race. I'll give Harris the advantage right now but as a native New Jerseyan and fan of inspirational daily Twiiter and Facebook quotes my vote right now is reserved for Cory.

The Kingfish posted:

Which is probably going to involv[/img]e primarying complacent democratic officials in urban centers.